Dr. Jennifer S. Beal
Professor of Deaf Education
- Ph.D. in Exceptional Children Deaf Education
Georgia State University (2012) - M.Ed. in Deaf Education
福利小视频 (2003) - B.S.Ed. in Special Education
福利小视频 (2000) - Gifted Education Certification
福利小视频 (2007) - Ed.S. in Special Education
福利小视频 (2006)
Teaching Fields: Deaf Education, ASL-English Interpreting, American Sign Language, Manual Communication
Jennifer S. Beal is a professor in the Teacher Education Department at 福利小视频, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Deaf Education and American Sign Language (ASL)-English Interpreting programs. She researches how deaf children, deaf adults, and university ASL learners acquire and use ASL, how assessment data are used to guide instruction, and how evidence-based instructional strategies increase deaf and hard of hearing students’ academic skills. She was previously an itinerant teacher of the deaf and worked at the Georgia School for the Deaf and the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf.
Recent Publications or Presentations:
Beal, J. S., & Bowman, S. (2025). How do university American Sign Language learners retrieve and produce signs? Sign Language Studies, 25(4), 632-669. doi: 10.1353/sls.2025.a970565
Beal, J. S. (2025). Research in practice: Pre-service teacher of the deaf action research with DHH K-12 learners and self-graphing. American Annals of the Deaf, 169(5), 473-495. https://doi.org/10.1353/aad.2025.a957987
Beal, J. S., Dostal, H., & Easterbrooks, S. R. (2024). Literacy instruction for students who are deaf and hard of hearing, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press.
Beal, J. S., & Bowman, S. (2022). ASL phonological fluency: How do deaf signers retrieve and produce signs? Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 28(2), 178-188. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enac042
Beal, J. S., Trussell, J. W., & Walton, D. (2022). Four American Sign Language learner groups: Are they really different? Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 37(3), 283-296. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enac004